Welcoming thousands of new students each year, we transform lives by doing the right things — inside of our lecture theatres, and across our communities. We combine a compassionate, inclusive approach to university-level study with game-changing research that is powerful, bold, and applied throughout professional practice. We are decisive, but nuanced; confident, but thoughtful. We are meticulous and methodical. Where meaningful support is needed, we provide it — and when tough, informed decisions are required, we make them.
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Our short and professional courses
University Language Programme
The University Language Programme (ULP) provides language courses at different levels of proficiency to students, staff and members of the public.
Academic English and language support
Find out about our English Language courses, designed to develop and enhance your knowledge of Academic English.
Health and Allied Professions CPD courses
Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) framework is a great way for practitioners and health service providers to meet and advance their standards of practice.
Career Development
NTU’s career development courses will help you to forge a great future supporting, guiding and enabling the professional dreams of others.
Data science
Learn a new language, from Python to R with our data science courses.
Research in Social Sciences
We couldn’t claim to be a leading provider of professional qualifications without the bedrock of our acclaimed research culture. It’s a symbiotic relationship, where the credentials of one inform the capacity of the other.
Research in Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities is a diverse, supportive and collaborative community in which to innovate, explore and create.
Our academic departments
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Criminology and Criminal Justice at NTU centres around engagement with communities and the criminal justice system. Its work reflects the University’s wider commitment to transforming people’s lives and creating opportunities.
Nottingham Institute of Education
Studying for a degree, already graduated, or planning a career change? At Nottingham Institute of Education at NTU, we offer a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in education, teacher training and childhood so that you can take the next step.
Institute of Health and Allied Professions
The Institute of Health and Allied Professions develops collaborative and innovative education and research in health, aiming to make a positive contribution to improving health for all.
Department of Humanities
Welcome to the Department of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. We're home to a diverse community of scholars and practitioners from a broad range of humanities disciplines.
Department of Journalism and Media
With strong industry links, the Department of Journalism & Media at NTU delivers cutting-edge courses and training at the forefront of journalism and media education.
Nottingham Institute of Languages and Intercultural Communication
Nottingham Institute of Languages and Intercultural Communication (NILIC) delivers innovative professional development, academic training, and language learning courses.
NTU Psychology
With over 150 academic experts with knowledge and experience across the breadth of the discipline, NTU Psychology in the School of Social Sciences is one of the largest departments in the UK.
Department of Social and Political Sciences
The Department of Social and Political Sciences provides a vibrant and close-knit academic community for staff and students. We take a progressive, sector-leading approach to the study of politics and international relations, encouraging student involvement in both traditional and practical forms of learning.
Department of Social Work, Care and Community
Want to make a difference? Social work and health offer some of the most rewarding, challenging and important jobs going – roles which give you the chance to meaningfully improve life for individuals, families, and even whole communities.
Latest news
Nurturing mothers help monkeys recognise key facial expressions
Mon 07 Apr 2025
NTU Mansfield launches BA Hons Social Work degree financially supported by Nottinghamshire County Council
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Gender-affirming care key to transgender men’s health and happiness
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Dyslexia ‘invisible’ in schools amid parent-teacher divide on support
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Expert Blog: Understanding China on Its Own Terms - Human Rights, Tianxia, and Religious Perspectives
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Nottingham University Hospitals works with Nottingham Trent University to develop the next generation of research leaders
Mon 03 Mar 2025
Upcoming events
15
Apr
Professor David Daley's Inaugural Lecture
Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building, City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
06
May
Professor Philip Wood's Inaugural Lecture
Lecture Theatre 5, Newton building, City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
06
May
Workhouse Lives V: ‘A Monstrous attack upon a poor helpless girl' - Workhouse children and the punishment continuum’, Dr Jeff James. Independent Scholar
14
May
Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship Briefing for Employers
19
May
Teacher Degree Apprenticeship: Launch & Q&A [Virtual Event]
03
Jun
Workhouse Lives V: ‘No Redeeming Feature’: Pauperism, Workhouses, and the Aliens Acts, 1906-1939’, Professor Ginger Frost, Samford University, USA
11
Jun
Social Justice: Reimagined, Repoliticised, Realised
Newton Building, City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
20
Jun
Trade Unions and University Research: Collaborating to make work better
Social Sciences publications
A qualitative investigation into the exercise habits, motivators and barriers faced by healthcare shift workers
Place leadership when (place-based) identities, economic and administrative geographies conflict: an East Midlands case study
What are the challenges encountered by international students in higher education in the United Kingdom?
The impact of smartphone addiction, phubbing, and fear of missing out on social co-operation and life satisfaction among university students
Psychometric properties of the Reward Deficiency Syndrome Questionnaire among a non-clinical sample and its relationship with the characteristics of potentially addictive behaviors
Online harms: problematic technology use is a public health concern and requires a multistakeholder approach
Arts and Humanities publications
Finding women’s history in schools – challenges for the curriculum review
The Latin East and the Crusades
Gender and criminality in the East Midlands during the Personal Rule, Civil Wars, and Interregnum
‘Wht pases betwixt us’: emotion and gender in seventeenth-century English friendship
Re-interpreting intangible cultural heritage through immersive live performances to enhance memory-based institutions and foster community engagement
Teaching diversity in women's history
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